Well, coelacanth, first of all, it has no spinal backbone. It’s got what’s called a notochord, and that is filled with an oil that I think gives them buoyancy and also gives them protection against the depth, they’re at for compressing their bodies. Coelacanth means hollow spine and the spines mostly on their dorsal fin are hollow. What advantage this is, I don’t know, but that’s where they get their name. The name Latimeria chalumnae is named after Ms. Courtenay-Latimer, who recognized that this was a particularly valuable fish when it was caught, accidentally off the East African Coast by a captain whose last name was Goossens. He brought it into port, I think at Port Elizabeth, and there was a museum there, and he called her. She came down to look at the fish and she recognized it as something really primitive, but she wasn’t sure about it. So they wrestled this fish into the backseat of a taxi cab and she took it back to the east London Museum and called Dr. J L B Smith, who was known as Alphabet Smith.
